A: The famous comment of John Wolf that in the summer of 1619 a Dutch man of war brought 20 Africans ... the social status of these first Africans to arrive in Virginia was very, very ambiguous ...

Bells across the country will toll Sunday afternoon as the National Park Service marks the 400th anniversary of the 1619 landing ... of the first slaves being brought to Virginia,” Gable said.

1619: A Dutch ship brings the first permanent African settlers to Jamestown. Africans soon are put to work on tobacco plantations. 1663: A Virginia court decides that a child born to a slave ...